If you haven't guessed I'm a pretty big astronomy fan, well astronomers think
they ave found the ancient equator
of Mars. If you fall into a supermassive black
hole you'd be roasted. Perhaps our solar system is unique
after all...

Instead of the nice circular orbits our nine planets enjoy, most of the
more than 160 extrasolar planets detected in the last decade have eccentric
orbits: so elongated that many come in very close to the central star and then
go out much further away. In a paper to be published April 14 by the journal
Nature, astrophysicists at Northwestern University are the first to report direct
observational evidence explaining the violent origins of this surprising planetary
behavior.